From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and XDG Base Dir Spec was: persistent storage for Emacs packages Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:37:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <201310202119.19244.thomas@koch.ro> <17329_1382360340_52652514_17329_164_1_1c38477173ab4b6cb80a8c50bd6dd0e9@EXHUB2010-1.campus.MCGILL.CA> <20874_1382379012_52656E04_20874_7_7_6906997aba2b4fc2b717f1f695c0e3df@EXHUB2010-2.campus.MCGILL.CA> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382384246 31288 80.91.229.3 (21 Oct 2013 19:37:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 19:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thomas Koch , Josh , Jan =?windows-1252?Q?Dj=E4rv?= , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Tyler Smith Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 21 21:37:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VYLI8-0000iE-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 21:37:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYLI8-0004Tg-5W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54671) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYLHz-0004Ta-KM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYLHs-0006LE-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:1286) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYLHs-0006L9-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:37:12 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLCX/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2NJYNlA6R6gV6DE4FL X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFxLCX/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2NJYNlA6R6gV6DE4FL X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="36007038" Original-Received: from 69-196-176-151.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.176.151]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 21 Oct 2013 15:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 361CF60026; Mon, 21 Oct 2013 15:37:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Tyler Smith's message of "Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:24:07 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:164431 Archived-At: > From Stefan's comment it sounds as if I should pull everything out of > .emacs.d except init and elpa. But it's convenient for me to have emacs in > its own contained world on my computer. Is there a risk of breaking > something with this approach? The problem with adding ~/.emacs.d to your load-path is one of namespace. E.g. Gnus expects ~/.emacs.d/gnus.el to be the user's Gnus config. So if you have such a file and add ~/.emacs.d to your load-path, you'll have a conflict where (load "gnus") will load your Gnus config file rather then loading Gnus proper. You can use ~/.emacs.d/ instead. But there's (so far) no officially blessed that we recommend. Stefan